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Show Theatrum Botanicum, CymbalariaHederacea, The lvie like leafe, Italica bederaceo folie, and (alumna Linaria hedere folio: nus quibsfaam, hand planéinepte,to diftinguifh it from the next that is like it alfo. The Vertnes, Galen faithitis bot and dry in the third degree, and that ithath a digefting quality therein alfos Diofcorides faith thatitis the moft power'ull remedy fpeedily co helpe thofe that are bitten byanySerpent, if the roote bee takenin wine : the fame alfois very effeCtuall to helpe the Sciatica, not onely tobe puc into glilters that are thade for that purpofe, but alfo to be applied outwardly, and by the digefting faculty is effe@uall to clenteand heale oldand filthy Vcers... Raswolfius in his Hoedoporice, ox Iowrgall ot the Lalt Countries, reporteth that the inhabitants about and in Aleppo doc afe the powderof the old and greater roots of thisherbe, to take out {potsoti: of their garments by rubbing themtherewith. Cuary, XCVIL. Umbilicus Venerishath,which you fhallfinde telatedinthe dueplace : this is with manyheld,and fome found by good experience to cure wounds, and to ftay the bleeding of them,the juice thereof being dropped into them, ortentsdipped therein and put into them : the herbe bruifed andapplyed outwardlyripeneth Impoftumes : The diftilled water of the herbe ferveth wellfor all the ufes aforefayd, Guars XCVI, Leontopetalos. Lyon léafed Tarnep orblacké Tarnep, ofa darke.or brownifh yellowcolour (red like an Anemone, fhorter then thofe of Radix Cava,or Famaria bulbofa, Hollow roote,elfe fomewhat like as the whole plant dothin fomefort refemble it,with {mall tound feede therein: i aah The Place, ; At gtoweth in the fields about Aleppo in Syria; in Grecia alfo; Candy and Naples : the rocté andwade face beene fene fometimes tous, but we could:feldomelhave it to live above a Summier,or the greater roote once to Winter:with ns. La “a The Time, ’ towreth inthe Winter-time in Gand; ius faith 3 but verylate if at all with us. aye aadal 2 i The Names. Dhe Sréekés call itasoyrntrancand thé Latinés Leo atopetalon Econtopetaton. Lyon leafed blacke Turnip. wy o Oaken leafed blacke Turnep, 4F-< His Plant fo like unto the laft hath caufed me to joyne it next unto it, whofe defeription according § to the beft anthors that have feeneitand ferit forth; and miné owne dbfervation oftheir figures, you fhall have inthis manner, It hath a tuberous roote like unto Leontopetalox,or the Earth Chefnut, called Balanocajtanon, or BulbcoaStannem, of a browne colour on the outfide and very red within, fendingforththree or foure long winged leaves, lying onthe ground, Reswolfins faith he never cbferved fo few as three, ftanding upon a very {mall and flender P D ou ftalke or ribbe, and.are made of manyleaves, ftanding oppo- fite one unto anather, at {paces or joynts,. and fome.at-the ends, every one whereof is {mall at the bottomé, and broad at the point, whereit is cut into some divifions, making them feeme Chrfoganun, Oaken leafed blacke Turnip, like unto Oaken leaves, but much lefler ( Rawwolfivs figure thereof feemeth to expreffe but two leaves at afpace, A/pinus figurefive: orfix yet fmaller) of a very darke greene, ftom among which leavesrifeth up a ftalke a cubit high, without anyleafe uponit, divided at the toppe into many{mall fprigs or branches, bearing every one a yellow flower, made offive Jeaves a peece,larger then thofe of the laft : after which come fmall fhort pods, {mall at the further end, witha little round knobbe,wherein lye the feede(like the other as I thinke.) The Place. It growethin the fields among the corne in Syria, as Raw- wolfius faith,who there found it, The Time, Thetime of the flowering is not exprefled, bucit is likely it being fo like the former,fhould flower abont the fametime. . <= mayufe in{tead of their Sallatss It is held as Adatthiolus faith with divers, to have fome properties that the true and therefore called of fome:dveuéve faith Diofcovides, and thofe that follow his Text onely) on ‘the outfide, and yellow onthe infide safter which come fmall poddes, thicker and : Chryfogonnm, other Nationsis, more then of ours, and therefore a Conferve made of the leaves, or Syrupe madeof the juice, we from whencerifeth up a ftraked ftalke, {potted with pale pur= plithlines and ftrakes, divided-into many branches, fet at the joynts with {maller leaves and leffer cut in; on the toppes whereofftand divers {mall flowérs,made of five leaves a peece, We maycall icin Engleither asit isin the and C#/slpinus doe makethe Radix Cava or Fumaria bulbofa, tobe Leontopetalum alterum, and Leontopetali gem The Vertnes, haire, and thereofrofe the name of Lyonleafe, as Takeit :) 683 title,or according tothe forme, Blacke Syrian Codded, or Syrian blacke bulbed Fumiterry, for both Asowilara Tt is held to be cold and moift (and therefore the Italians thought it‘a fit fubfticure for Umsbilicus Venerts (which holdis farre better then that kind of Ranunc#lus, called (0tyledon aquatica, which our Apothecaries ufe in {tead - thereof, becaufe it is hot fharpe and exulcerating, which are quite contraryto the qualities of that hérbe they ufeit for, although the forme of the leafe being round, canfed the name of Corgledon to bee givenit) yet hath it fome a~ firitionalfo, wheteby as Adatrhiolus faith it isvery profitable for womenthat have the whites,to ftay them,being eaten often in Sallats, as the manner of the Italians and up divers large and long leaves, mich divided or cut into di. Vetsparts (Diofcorides faith like unto Coleworts or Poppies, Pena and Lobel fay mote like unto Peony leaves, but wee finde that they are more jagged or cut in} of a darke yéllowith greene colour (withus, but it may be of a darker yellow cofour in the natural! places, neareunto the colour of a Lyons Cuar.g7, alfo, for the caufe {hewed in the defciption as I thinke : divers ocher Greeke namesit hath needelefle to be re= alfo faying chat Leontopetalon was called Leonv-podinminhistime. herein, and not one as in Linaria being anfwerable thereunto = wee may call it in Eng/ifi eyther Iviewort or the Ivie like leafeas itis in the title, or from Cymbation, the Italian Gondelo, untill a more fit name may bee givenit, J Turnep or Sowbread, or great Earth Chefnut roote, 5 Lhe Theater of Plants. Rawzwolfivs faith, that they about Aleppo call ic Aflab, Apuleius calleth it Lebatopodisim, and fo doth e4:tiws alfo in a(cribingthe fame qualities to his Leontopodinm, that Dio/corides and Galen doe, unto the Leontopetalon; Oribafius that isveronica femina, rather then Linaria, every part EU¥ISR being of a blackifh gray colour, with divers {mall "a2" bunches or knobbesonthe fides, from whence {pring a tripe 5. membred here, and Latine alfo, as Rapeium, Papaverculum, Semen L m, Brumaria, and Pes Leoninyg, and Pata leonis s but yet there is another Pata leonis called Alchymilla,as wee have fhewed before. Camerarius from for he in thisasin all other herbes faith, the flowers and feede doe moft truly demonftrate the jpecies of every ges ss, which [hold tobe the beft jadicivm an Herbarift can ufe, and therefore I would makeita (Pecies of the Elatine He roote of this herbe is mberous, fomewhat like a ‘ The Names. Diofcorides onely of the ancient Greeke Authors maketh mentionof it, and calleth it x¢vety2v0v Chryfegonum, which the St Umbilieus Veneria officinarum. Lobel calleth it Cymbalaria Trise.s, Latines alfo follow, and if wee defcant upon the nameorEti- Q) S HAP. 96. mologie, itisayellow knee or joynt, whichit is likely althoughit be not expreffed in the defeription the ftalkes have, Ranmolfivs onely and Pona in his Italian Baldus of the late writershave fet forth'the figure of it, for Durantes hath nothing bucthe text of Disfcorides » Lugdonenfes in his Appendix hath the Text of Rawwolfius = and Baxhinus hath it from them, and Ponawhohadit from Padre Afalocchio,Prefident of the Garden at Pifa : Thave in rhis as-in’the former given it an Englifh ldtiwe. name,according to the’ forme that in my mindeit beareth, ey- ther of which may (tand until{a more proper may be givenit. i The Vertues, Tits as the formeris appropriated by Diofcorides (for I can= NY) ii notfinde that Galen hath made mentionofit) to heale the bitings of vértemous healt, ‘and efpecially the Shrew net Moufe : and thereby maybee conjeCtured to bee of the {amie facultié in the other things wick CHAP) |
